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No. 549,004. .Patente-d 00h29, 1895. f

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GEORGE NOLL, OF MINDEN, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR TO EMIL STAHL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

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erncrrronrron forming pan-t tf Letters Patent Nn. 549,004, dated october 2e, y1895. Application tutti stptttnttt 25, 1893. senin No. 486,384. (No nttatl.) Ptttnttt in England .inne 24, latent. 10,238.

To @ZZ whom it may concern.;

Bev-it known that I, GEORGE NOLL, a citizen of Germany, and a resident of Minden, Prussia, Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Oarbonators, (for which I have obtained a patent in Euggland, No. 10,238, dated June 24, 1889,) of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved apparatus for charging liquids with carbonicacid gas and in which the liquid is thoroughly subdivided, so that all of its particles become impregnated with the carbonio-acid gas.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure lis a vertical longitudinal section of my improved carbonator. Fig. 2 is a vertical section at right angles to l with the glass pieces removed.

The letter A represents an upright cylindrical vessel, into-the upper end of which enters a pipe F, adapted for the dicharge of water into the vessel. This pipe is perforated at its discharge end, as at f,so that such water may be ejected into the vessel in a finely-divided state. The pipe is fed by a suitable pump D, that receives the water from a reservoir or aquaduct through supply-pipe E. At its lower end the vessel A is connected to an accumulator C, from which it is divided by a perforated partition c. This accumulator may be provided with a curved. returnpipe c', that enters the vessel A above the partition c, and which serves to conduct the gas out of the accumulator into the vesselA as such gas is displaced by the charged water.

B'is the gas-pipe for delivering carbonicacid gas to the bottom of vessel A immediately above the accumulator O. Between the pipe F and the diaphragm c the vessel A is filled with a column M of small pieces or blocks of glass, porcelain, pumice-stone, coke, or a similar material, which is not soluble in water or carbonio acid. The blocks are loosely packed, so as to form intervening spaces and so that their surfaces are to a large extent exposed. Above the pipe F there is an airspace d, into which the air which is liberated and expelled from the iinely-subdivided water is received. This air may be drawn off through cock G.

In use the water'delivered through pipe F will flow downward from pipe F through vessel A, and will trickle from block to block, so as to be thoroughly subdivided and to expose a very large surface. The gas admittedrby pipe B will iiow upward and meet this finelysubdivided body of water flowing in an opposite direction. v -Thusthe gas comes into contact with all the particles of water from the bottom to the top kof the apparatus and is thoroughly absorbed in such a manner that l a thoroughly-charged and a perfectly-uniform product free from air is obtained. The charged product passes through perforated partitions c into the accumulator O, from which it is drawn from time to time by discharge-pipe e.

The combination of an upright vessel, a perforated plate across the vessel, a column of loosely packed blocks in the vessel resting on the said plate, a water pipe having a perforatedend and a source of supply therefor discharging into said vessel through said end at the top of said column, a gas pipe discharging into'the vessel at the bottom of the column, an accumulator for the carbonated liquid placed at right angles to the said vessel, a pipe connecting said accumulator and said vessel, and a return pipe for the gas from said accumulator into the vessel, substantially as described. Y

Signed at Minden, in the Province of Westphalia and Empire of Germany.

. GEORGE NOLL. Witnesses:

D. LEUMZ, EDwD. P. CRANE. 

